Q: How many Honduran villages do you visit each year? Are they the same villages or do you choose different ones? A: We will typically visit a given village several times. First to re-con the site for volunteer teams and site location for clinic construction. During the course of construction we will bring 2-3 volunteer medical teams over several months. Once the clinic is up and running we leap-frog deeper into the jungle for the next project. We use the villages where we have been in the past as lay-over sites. Where we have been the communities are now stable and do not need our help. We field about 3 full-on volunteer teams a year and another 3-4 non-volunteer teams. We do not take volunteers into an area until we have researched it. We take very select volunteers that have served in Honduras into Afghanistan and Cambodia and to disaster responses. |